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Dr. Website Archives Dr. Website® Archives 2002 October 24, 2002 Question: Dear Dr. Website: got your e-mail address from one of your tutorials on Web Design. I currently learning VXML. I am using javascript for simple client side processing. There are a number of languages to use for server side programming including java, jsp, asp, perl -cgi, php, etc. I am lost. I also read that java-cgi is a good combination and perl-cgi is a good combination. I am lost as what to learn next for server-side processing. The perl-cgi combination seems good. What language do I learn for server side processing? Please help. Thanks Answer: There is no one "best" programming language for server side programming...it's simply a choice you'll need to make. Perl can be used, as can PHP or ASP or many other programming/scripting languages. The choice would largely depend on your server's operating system, and your skill level in any of the above programming/scripting languages. CGI simply stands for Common Gateway Interface--it is not a language in and of itself. Personally I am partial to ASP, but then again, I am very comfortable with Microsoft NT operating systems. I am also comfortable using Perl, again, largely because I work with many Unix systems. Although it is possible to use Perl on Windows and ASP on Unix, it is not the norm. Thanks, and good luck with your VoiceXML! --Dr.Website Question: Dear Dr. Website: I am in the process of trying to send a newsletter to my customers in HTML but it ends up different sizes in different browsers. It is 800*600 pixels in a 1024*768 resolution browser the newsletter overlaps. How do I make my newsletter end up the same size no matter what the browser? Thanks! Answer: You need to design your web page (which is to become your newsletter) to use percentages instead of fixed widths within tables. If you use WIDTH=100% (instead of WIDTH=500) it'll fit any browser window, and should work out perfectly. Thanks, --Dr.Website Question: Dear Dr. Website: How do you embed a web page into an e-mail and what is the potential downside to sending email this way? Thank you! Answer: To embed a web page to an email, you can do the following: * when you are viewing the page you wish to send in your browser, go to View/Source in your web browser's menu * add the following tag to the HEAD section of the document: <BASE HREF="http://siteinquestion.com"> then you don't have to change any image tags or links in the source code (use www.sitename.com, changing it of course to the site's URL in the tag) * copy and paste the entire source code into the body of your email. * send the email The negative aspect of using HTML within emails is that not everybody will be able to view the HTML email. Some email clients are not designed to show HTML, and other users simply have that feature turned off. Thanks, --Dr.Website ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

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